Careful Words

perish (v.)

When all of genius which can perish dies.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Monody on the Death of Sheridan. Line 22.

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all

That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

William Pitt (1759-1806): The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.

Perish that thought! No, never be it said

That Fate itself could awe the soul of Richard.

Hence, babbling dreams! you threaten here in vain!

Conscience, avaunt! Richard's himself again!

Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away!

My soul's in arms, and eager for the fray.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757): Richard III. (altered). Act v. Sc. 3.

  Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxix. 18.

  Thy money perish with thee.

New Testament: Acts viii. 20.